The Real Definition Of Minisite Design
Posted on Saturday Nov 14, 2009 Under New IdeasMinisite design: do you know what that means? Or have you ever heard of the term minisite design? To put it simply, minisite design is design on a web page where the purpose is to sell your product or to collect visitors’ contact info. Usually minisite design is a term that only Internet marketers know. People outside the world of Internet marketing most likely do not know what it means. Don’t believe me? Try asking your friends if they know what a minisite design is and they will most like say No.
You might argue that you can write a sales letter for your product and slap up some kind of plain HTML page without any design at all. But think about it, when visitors land on your page and you’re selling them your product or service, do you expect them to believe you when you don’t even have a decent design that goes with the sales letter? I’m sure that you will doubt the website owner and not buy his product or service.
The same concept applies for your ultimate footer ad squeeze page. If you have a nice-looking squeeze page that is professionally designed by a pro, your opt-in rate will surely increasse. This alone is worth many times over the price of getting a minisite design done. If you have a poor minisite design yet you say to yourself “I want to get more traffic to my website“, you’re wasting valuable traffic since your website won’t convert well.
You might say to yourself “Hmm why don’t I design the minister myself?” My advice is NO do not do it yourself. This is especially true if you don’t know a thing about graphic design. Why? I’ll give you three reasons why. First, your design is most likely very bad. The second reason is that you’d spent a lot of time trying to learn how to design and the final output (your design) will still be very poor anyway. You’d be a lot better spending your time to do stuff that you’re good at. The third reason is that hiring a professional minisite designer will save you both time and money, and the design will be tens, if not hundreds, of times better than your design.